7 Russian Gastric Patients Die After Drinking ‘Battery Fluid’ Ahead of X-Rays

A top Russian doctor is under investigation when seven patients died after they were allegedly given battery fluid before having x-rays. Around two dozen other patients became violently ill while preparing for gastrointestinal x-rays at St Petersburg’s Municipal Diagnostic Center No. 1. They were given what they believed to be barium sulfate, a compound typically used …